Khmer Times/Tin Sokhavuth

PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Cambodia’s next elections for commune officials will take place in February 2017, Interior Minister Sar Kheng has confirmed.

Elections take place every five years in Cambodia’s 1,633 communes, or sangkats. In 2012, they were held on the first Sunday in June. But opposition and ruling party lawmakers have agreed to move the date due to the rainy season in June. During that time, some polling stations are flooded.

In the previous elections – for commune councils in 2012 and for the National Assembly in 2013 – voters complained that they could not find their names on voter lists. If many voters feel disenfranchised, an election loses credibility.

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Nice to see the nation can resolve the voting dates and venue so that voters can vote without any conflict.

Quite unlike a certain constitutional court and election commission in a neighbor that does not seem to respect equality of rights of its voters.